Posts tagged spirituality

I nearly ruined Christmas by dreading the new year. It was not too long after my husband died and my heart was still broken and bleeding. Christmas was an ordeal even though my family squelched their pain to try to make a happy celebration.
In fact, we all worked hard the first Christmas without our strong, quiet leader for the sake of [...]

I happily admit to everyone I couldn’t have survived that grief journey without God pulling me up out of the black pit and putting me back on the path numerous times. While that’s certainly true, it doesn’t begin to convey the pit hours I spent crying at life’s unfairness, my children’s needs, my hopeless future, our business’ uncertain futur [...]

If I’d only waked up an hour earlier….
It seems every death, no matter how peaceful or expected, carries along with it some guilt. A sudden death is even more likely to invite guilt on the loved ones remaining. That seems to be the human nature of most people. If we cherished the one who died, we come up with something we could have done bett [...]